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Django Weblog

Django 6.1 released

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.1. The release notes offer a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements. A few highlights are: Model field fetch modes for configuring on-demand fetching behavior Database-level delete options for ForeignKey.on_delete Dictionary-based email settings You can get Django 6.1 from our downloads page or from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is Jacob Walls: 131403F4D16D8DC7 With the release of

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Meta Engineering

From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking

Every day, Meta’s recommendation platforms handle billions of user interactions, generating rich temporal signals that capture individual preferences and intent across products, ads, and content. In our 2024 post on sequence learning for ads recommendations, we showed how modeling the order and timing of user actions (rather than relying on static, manually engineered sparse features) [...] Read More... The post From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranki

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